The City's Backyard
The City's Backyard with Matt Zako. A Podcast For New York City's Backyard or any city's backyard across the world! Covering Arts, Entertainment, music and the community!
The City's Backyard
Latest Episodes
The City's Backyard Ep 225 VANESSA COLLIER, renowned soulful blues saxophonist-vocalist-songwriter and winner of five prestigious Blues Music Awards, continues her year-long "Keep It Saxy" 2026 Tour!
Vanessa Collier is a multi-award-winning songwriter, master musician, and multi-instrumentalist, known for seamlessly weaving together funk, soul, rock, and blues styles through soulful vocals, searing saxophone solos, and witty songwriting ski...
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The City's Backyard Ep 224 "The craft beer movement" with Gregg Glaser from Modern Distillery Age , a trade publication covering the distilled spirits business in America!
This episode is all about BEER in the backyard! Ok that sounds good but more specifically it's really about the craft beer movement. If there is one guy who knows about beer it's Gregg Glaser from Modern Distillery Age. Gr...
The City's Backyard Ep 223 Local favorite Danny Mariano from the band LOVE+WAR warms up for LITA FORD at The Norwalk Oyster Festival Friday September 11th!
Danny Mariano is a local favorite in Fairfield County playing in his band that everyone loves called Bad Boy! He's a lead singer of his new band called Love+War (love and war) where the band just won this year's "Jam at the Dam Battle of the Ba...
The City's Backyard Ep 222 BRIAN DOLZANI as The LONER: The Music of Neil Young. This Connecticut-based troubadour brings everything you want and need from Neil’s music to an intimate club experience!
Brian Dolzani is a contemporary singer/songwriter that possesses an old soul. A listen to his music makes that point abundantly clear. So too, the fact that he lists any number of ‘60s and ‘70s songwriters as prime influences — Bob...
The City's Backyard Ep 221 Teskey, a Rocking Blues band with front man Brandon Teskey who talks about covering the Blind Faith track and the new album Live at The Rhythm Room!
Teskey, a Rocking Blues band, was formed in 2024. Their music includes and often fuses elements of Blues, Alt Rock, Pink-Floyd-esque Psychedelia, and Jazz. Teskey quickly began playing national shows, has opened up for famous Blues and Rock ...
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